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Nobody ever outgrows
Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

“The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.” A. W. Tozer

“We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.” William Law

If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them?

Christ did.

Max Lucado

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things.

John Burroughs

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending

We hurt people by being too busy.  Too busy to notice their needs.  Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love.  Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk.  Too busy to care.

Billy Graham

“No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.” William R. Inge

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. George Müller

“Leadership is found in becoming the servant of all.” Richard Foster

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Thomas Edison

“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple… but only God can count the apples in a seed.”

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

“It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world.” John Calvin

We’re just physically not physical enough.

Denny Crum

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Carol Malia

“The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

You guys are unique in your own way

Mia Hammond

“I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

“Now, the only thing that remains unresolved is the resolution of the problem.”

Thomas Wells, Ontario legislature minister

“I deny the allegations and I defy the alligators!”

“That’s just the tip of the ice cube.”

Neil Hamilton, BBC2

“You can’t just let nature run wild.”

Wally Hickel, former Alaska governor

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

If you’re going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

Rural Americans are real Americans. There’s no doubt about that…

Dan Quayle

“I don’t know all the certain words to word it.”

Vanilla Ice, Rap Star, on why he hired a ghostwriter for his autobiography

“It is thought that Raj Mohammed Poselay was beaten to death, possibly during a family fun day in the park.”

Newspaper, Wolverton Express & Star (UK)

“Sure, it’s going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.”

Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.

Hillary Clinton

“Outside consultants sought for test of gas chamber.”

Ad in Arizona Republic

“I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad.”

Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player